We imagine and build tools for creators.

As an arts based think-tank and creative studio, we focus on leveraging new technologies in support of the arts.

BIG PROJECTS

The Compensation Foundation is an online platform for collecting, sharing, and analyzing how contingent workers are compensated. Launched in 2014, our first focus is collecting data on visual artists and we have current surveys running in the Bay Area, CA and the Houston Area, TX. We hope to enable artists to access data outside their personal network as well as easily identify industry-wide and organization-specific norms.

The The People's E-book is a beautifully simple tool to enable anyone to make e-books easily and for free. Funded by 970 kickstarter backers in 2013, it aims to break down the technological barriers for creators in digital publishing.

The Present Prize is a democratic arts prize targeting an underfunded area of the creative landscape. It is funded and awarded by The Present Group's community of web hostees as well as individual contributors.

Art Micro Patronage was an experimental online exhibition space featuring monthly curated shows of digital, new media, and intermedia work. As visitors navigated through the exhibitions, they were encouraged to become micro-patrons of the arts, associating their appreciation of the works with small monetary values.